GravityDept said
Nice work @cac003! I see someone else drafted you while I was enjoying the weekend. If anybody wants to draft players I haven’t feel free. I’m more focused on web / interaction design so that’s primarily what I’m looking for, but talent is talent.
Still two invites left if more people are interested.

I’m rather annoyed by attitude of majority of those who have dribbble invites and are giving them away. You’re all making some “rules” and “contests” where you need to be “impressed”. If you want to give invites, then why don’t you just tell people to post their work and five of them might get invited instead of acting like a snob. You’re “disqualifying” people and “maintaining order”? You’re feeling “generous”, and I shall impress you? Like nCrafts and loveetc said: NO. It may be me just having a bad day, but I find your posts and title of this thread very annoying.

scrnjakovic said
I’m rather annoyed by attitude of majority of those who have dribbble invites and are giving them away. You’re all making some “rules” and “contests” where you need to be “impressed”. If you want to give invites, then why don’t you just tell people to post their work and five of them might get invited instead of acting like a snob. You’re “disqualifying” people and “maintaining order”? You’re feeling “generous”, and I shall impress you? Like nCrafts and loveetc said: NO. It may be me just having a bad day, but I find your posts and title of this thread very annoying.

First, I’m taking time out of my day to offer this. Access to Dribbble is something many designers want. Be clear about that before calling anyone offering access a snob.

Most good / well-connected designers have been on Dribbble for a long time. Drafting is not a priority because finding new candidates is essentially work. That’s why many Dribbble users have invites accumulating. This is not a contest, you don’t win anything. It’s an opportunity.

Someone even offered to pay for an invite, and I turned them down. You can’t buy access to Dribbble. It’s a meritocracy governed by the members.

The rules, disqualifications, and maintenance of order are for the good of Dribbble. The invite-system is designed to keep quality high, so member’s are responsible for drafting designer’s that add value to the community. Dribbble has certain constraints, and I imposed constraints as rules of the offer to weed out people who lack precision and care. That’s what makes a good designer.

The rules worked. I did not draft people who couldn’t follow directions because I feel they’ll make poor additions to the Dribbble community. Also I want to minimize my time spent reviewing candidates and drafting them.

The thread title says “Impress me” because that’s what it takes to get drafted. I’m not going to invite anyone that doesn’t raise the quality bar on Dribbble. If that is snobby I’m fine with that. It should motivate you to improve your skills. That’s one of the things I love about Dribbble.